1951 Movies

The perils of children acting first and thinking later are illustrated in these stories of what happens to children who exhibit such rash behavior.

Animated short film from 1951 directed by Hans Fischerkoesen , made for the advertising of a Trumpf Schokolade product.

...another short film for children about a young girl leading her friend to Christ by means of a “wordless book,” a 1950s evangelistic tool used in ma...

Short featuring the director's children, nieces and nephews, and friends reenacting Disney's "The Three Caballeros" (1944). Ethnic and racial stereot...

Perugia and its Italian University for foreign students.

Limited animation safety film from the Navy.

Thirteen-year-old Jenda, whose father is the leader of an illegal movement in a small town at the end of World War II, proves his bravery and sense of...

This TravelTalk short focuses on the ancient ruins in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa, and the architecture in Florence, Italy.

The treatment of injured and sick children at Louisville, Kentucky's Kosair Crippled Children Hospital (now Kosair Children's Hospital) is depicted in...

A Hy Hirsh film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Ray thinks that being friendly to people shows that you're a "sissy." His older brother Phil decides to teach Roy how to be more friendly, and to show...

Doris Ake provides the title dance.

A look at life in MacKenzie District in Canada's Northwest Territories.

This documentary shows the fishing grounds of the far north. It provides an insight into the hard and dangerous work on a fishing trawler ; laying out...

This Traveltalk series short visit to Argentina includes a look at its capital Buenos Aires.

Workplace safety

This short documentary studies the contrast between the sedate Toronto of the turn of the century and the thriving, expanding metropolis of 1951. Aeri...

Studies Abraham Lincoln in relation to the historical period in which he lived. Analyzes his historical contributions and shows the Kentucky hills, In...

Introduction to Jazz was directed by film students in the newly formed Motion Picture Division at UCLA part of the Educational Film Sales Department....